Roundup: What's Your Work/Life Balance?

We asked some of you about your work/life balance. About how much time do you spend weekly working on your daily classroom presentations during your off-hours? How do you balance that time with your personal life? Here are the answers.

NAILS Career Handbook 2014 Available Now

This annual guide helps students and recent grads transition from school to the real world. Order free copies to hand out to your students and access the digital version online for free.

Update: I finished school!

How to Help Your Students Choose the Right Salon: Part One

How do you help students choose the right salon to work in after graduating from nail school? At Chicago Nail School, we assign a salon visiting project.

Roundup: What Would You Change About Nail Schools?

We asked nail techs, students, and instructors, what would you improve/change about nail schools?

Cuccio Colour Class Offered in Brazil

More than 60 beauty professionals recently attended two days of training in Brazil to indulge their love for Cuccio’s polish and Veneer lines. 

5 Field Trips You Should Fit Into Your Nail Program

An out-of-class experience can enhance your students' excitement about their beauty career. From attending a tradeshow to shopping the local beauty supply, here are some places to start.

What's more important for a newly licensed tech to build her business: technical skills or people skills?

With required school hours varying across the country, and some states requiring less than 100 hours to graduate from a nail program, we asked a cross-section of the nail industry — from school instructors to salon owners to veteran nail techs — a timely question: For newly licensed nail techs, what is more important initially in building your business: top-notch technical skills or top-notch people skills? Why?

Easy As 1-2-3

Shanelle Heitmann brings school to nail design.